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Managing a Data Mesh with Dataplex
Dataplex is an intelligent data fabric that enables organizations to centrally discover, manage, monitor, and govern their data across data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts. You can use...
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$1,800 USD
Duration
2 days
Course Code
GCP-DM-DPX
Available Formats
Classroom, Virtual
Overview
Dataplex is an intelligent data fabric that enables organizations to centrally discover, manage, monitor, and govern their data across data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts. You can use Dataplex to build a data mesh architecture to decentralize data ownership among domain data owners.
In this course, you will learn how to discover, manage, monitor, and govern your data across data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts through guided lectures and independent exercises using sample data.
Skills Gained
- Identify the importance of a modern data platform
- Configure and set up Dataplex
- Secure data lakes, zones, and assets
- Implement tagging for resources and use tags to search for assets
- Process data using Dataplex tasks
- Design, execute and report on data quality processes
Who Can Benefit
Customers
Prerequisites
Completion of the "Modernizing Data Lakes and Data Warehouses with Google Cloud" and "Building Batch Data Pipelines on Google Cloud" courses in the "Data Engineer" learning path or equivalent experience using Google Cloud.
Course Details
Course Outline
Introduction to Dataplex
- Modern Data Platforms and Data-Oriented Design
- Pillars of Data Governance
- What is Dataplex?
- Dataplex Capabilities
- Dataplex compared with other products on Google Cloud
- Identify the importance of a modern data platform
- Explain the role of Dataplex on Google Cloud
Creating a Data Mesh on Dataplex
- What is a data mesh?
- Dataplex concepts
- Creating data lakes and zones
- Assets in Dataplex
- Define key Dataplex concepts
- Configure and set up Dataplex
- Lab: Provision a Data Mesh using Dataplex
Processing Data on Dataplex
- Processing data on Dataplex
- Data preparation tasks
- Ingestion jobs
- Dataflow and Spark tasks
- Understand different data processing options in Dataplex
- Configure and run data preparation tasks on Dataplex
- Lab: Standardize Data using Dataplex Tasks
Managing Data Security through Dataplex
- IAM permissions and roles
- Securing your data lake
- Policy management
- Metadata security
- Secure data lakes, zones, and assets in Dataplex
- Lab: Manage Data Security using Dataplex
Data Tagging and Data Catalog
- Introduction to Data Catalog
- Technical metadata vs. business metadata
- Tags and tag templates
- Entries and entry groups
- Data lineage
- Implement tagging for resources and use tags to search for assets
- Lab: Data Catalog and Data Lineage
Data Quality and Profiling
- Data quality tasks and AutoDQ
- Reporting on data quality
- Data profiling
- Design, execute and report on data quality processes
- Lab: Data Quality and Profiling your Data in BigQuery
Dataplex Best Practices
- Best practices
- End-to-end demo
- Implement best practices for Dataplex
- Challenge Lab: Managing a Data Mesh with Dataplex
Schedule
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Jul 31, 2025 - Aug 1, 2025 (2 days)
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Reviews
Exit certified was great as it is very in depth and hands on learning which made it very easy to learn this type of work.
Course was great and informative. The instructor had a good flow and was very personable.
Good training. A lot to take in for the short amount of time we have though
I liked the pace of the course. I like that I have more than instance to use the lab.
Good Course. We covered a lot of material in a short amount of time. This course had useful labs that built upon each other.
